The 5th and 6th grade select singers perform the song Hallelujah on Saturday night during the Emma Martinez Memorial Concert. (THE EVENING SUN -- SHANE DUNLAP)

A large crowd gathered in the Hanover High School auditorium Saturday night for dancing and singing during the Emma Martinez Memorial Concert.

Saturday was the second concert held in honor of Emma Martinez, a 2000 Hanover High School graduate who died in a car crash in 2003. Martinez was 21, studying communication arts at St. John's University in Queens.

The first concert was held in 2004, a few months after her death, which helped to raise money for the scholarship, started in her name. Now, the scholarship has become a tradition, with funds raised from a dance-a-thon hosted by Hanover Middle School.

This year, for the 10th anniversary of Martinez's death, Hanover middle and high school students sang and danced Saturday night in her memory for the second time since 2004. Three members of Martinez's college chorus group traveled to Hanover to sing at the concert.

The three members - Donald Gormanly, Melissa Lamothe and Eric Porter - said it was an honor to come and sing in Martinez's memory. The chorus at the university is much like a family, the trio explained, remembering how the news of her death impacted the close-knit group.

The three also performed at her funeral. And now, ten years later, were performing at her memorial concert with students who never met Martinez. It's amazing, Gormanly said, of the impact Martinez has left behind through a scholarship, dance-a-thon and love of singing.